Spring-lock for adjustable casings of roller-bearings.



G. S. LOGKWOOD. ASPRING LOCK FOB ADJUSTABLE GASINGS OP ROLLER BEARINGS.

` Arrmoulon FILED .TUNE 27, 1910,

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,l CHABLIS s. Looxwoon, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, AssrGNon, To 'HYATT ROLLE: 'EEABING oomrANY, OE HARRISON, NEW JERSEY, a CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

SPRING-LOCK FOB ADJUSTABLE CASINGS OF BOLLEBFBE'ABINGS.

.specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 30, 191.2..

p'pucanoniuea June 27; 1910. seriall No. 568,969.

To all 'it may concern:

'Be it known'that I, CHARLES S. Lopnwoon, afcitize'n of the United States, residing at 289-Market street, Xewark, county'of Essex,

and State 'of' New Jersey, have inventedcervtain new and useful Improvements in Sp'iing-laock's for .Adjustable Casings of Roller-Bearings, fully described and represented i'n the following" specification and theaccompanying drawings, forming a part 4of the saine.

This invention relates to aspring locking devlcefor the two sections of a casing such as is used in a roller bearing for adjusting the contact of rolls with a conical h ub. l

In the present invention-onesectlon of the casing is made to fit inside the` other, so that a. continuous series of closely adjacent ratchet-teeth or recesses having double slop,

i a sloping face canbe projected elasticallyi ratchet teeth are employed ing faces can be formedI upon the periphery of the inner- Section, and a looking tooth with through the shell-of the outer's'ection to engage such recesses. Thel periphery 'of .the outer section lis usually. made of plain cylindrical foi-m so as to lit Within a cylindrical socket in any structure where such a roller bearing is required, and the spring which is located upon the periphery of the casing to carry'the locking tooth Inust be 'sunk into a depressed socket upon such periphery so as not to.proje'ct beyond 'ts surface.

It is old to employ'a locking tooth in connection with' parallel-sided notches which, when engaged lwith such a tooth,.absolute'ly prevent rotation of'the sections upon one another but the object of the present invention isto perm'itthe turning of one of the sections upon the other in one direction or, if required, in either direction without manipulalting the spring-tooth by hand; `and. when such'free movement is required in one direction and Y to permita rotation of one of th resistance in the opposite direction, or recesses and "a spring-tooth are employed which have faces 'sloped in both directions, e sections in relation to theoth'er in either direction.

`In my construction, the mere rotation -of fthe section'inoves'the sloping surfaces upon one another so as to automatically force the" tooth elastically from the recess and hold itthere during therotation of the section until i 'double'conical 'seats b united at'their bases 'and-sustaining two sets of rolls c and c it drops 4into the' next-recess.A

part. o f the inner spring having a slopin The rece may have 'a'sloping face upon 'struction permits one section of the casing to be screwed into the other without resistance from the tooth. until the two parts of the casing are suitably adjusted, when the fitti-ng of the tooth into vone of the recesses will prevent the backward turning of the casino mentibas the shoulders ofthe tooth and cas- "ing prevent anyreverse movement.

The recesses'ma'y be made concave, Whlch forms a sloping surface at both` of their edges, and the tooth-of convex form fitted to b oth of the sloping surfaces, which willpermitvmovement of the casing, sections in either direction. but serves' toprevent the sections from accidental displacement upon one another bythe spring pressure 'of the tooth into the recess.

orthe derangement of the adjust- Two .modifications of the invention lare I shown intheannexed drawing, in which- Figure l.is an end view of the casingof a bearing provided with the improvement, a and outer sections being. broken away to the center of the socket in' which the spring is seated Fig. 2 is a 'longitudinal section of .the .complete hearing,l where hatched', at'the center line ofthe casing;l Fig. A.5' is an edge view of the casing showing the spring and its'recessiii the periphery of the outer section. .InFigx l, the

modifications of the ,recesses and' spring tooth per'ip ry of the inner section 'withl the recesses sloped-upon one side; Fig. v5 -is a 4seoy' tion' ofthe shell and inner section with the tooth adapted to fit such u recess; Big. 6s

'and va tooth having a convexend to lit s uc concave recesses. The -hub a of the bearing 'is shown with recesses are shown 'as holes through a circular ffange; but Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive show 95 rawn upon twice the scale. of the pre- -cedlnff figures.' Fig. 4 shows part of the ows part of the pef- 4ripl'rery of the inner section with .concavfe recesses;'and Fig. 7 is a. section of the shell and inner section with part of the sprn shell e extended fromV the same andprof'.` fvidedfwith *thel .internal screwtlneadge.`

Section 6.', which carries the recesses, the

ysaid recesses being shown with one side u A- c'ured'by a rivet j-in one-end of the'socket.',.

-prsesuponthe-slopin .face of the tooth andis-thusadapted toy orce the. toothout- 'arrow d?, .whenscre'win said section into of ftherecesses secures thesection d posi- 'ti1j fe1yf froniiturning backwardly, and'A thusy pre-tents anyacci'dental derangerncnt of the adju'stlnentl'.l The :sections are lthus auto- 1in. the requiredadjustment, the locking be!` andthe socket ismade of sufficient 4length practice by a cage.

' The casing is 4formed of two annularsections, the outer section-'d having a tapering seat to embrace the rolls-e, and having4 a szvlhielrjare guided in their.' movement, in

The inner section'd, havingthe seat to ,em-,- brace the rolls c', is providedwith ianqex# ternal thread'to screw withinfthe shell,and a.l flangeb which. is proyided upon-its 'ini d die line rwith an annular series'- of; recesses in the formulof round holes f, and tha-shells such recesses.-

f lnzFigs. l] aud, a socket'hLis-.eirteiidedj ircumferentially in the periphery Offthe' shell, and a `I ea'fspring z lhas Vne end se? A rforation j lis lformed through' the. she the opposite end of the reees s,j aiid -tl `ief springA is provided with'ja'. .stud g- 'Whihigextends through :the perforation; Ito ca'yf'tlie tooth g. Ther tooth 'isjmade I'cyliudriclftofenter'anyof the lh'oles. f, but sloped-,f'l'ponone4 side 'v so'tliatfwhen the sections are lturned in' one. directionfin relation to onef'anotheig the edge' of the hole wgrdr- .utnmatically. Such operation of the tooth; thefsecti'on-,d to .be turned insidethesl1ellce inthe direction of the theshelLandfthusenab es the parts to be4 turned in relation to ,onejanother until Vthe is A'pro'perly adjusted upon the rolls, whenfthe engagement of the tooth 4ivithfone matiall'y lockedfin' theiry adjusted -position without-any'attention Whatever on the rpart; of the operator, exceptto, 'arrange the 'parts 'efe'cted-inde pendentl of any attention or care upon his part. l, the ,spring is shoivn extended slightly yon'd thel stud-to form-:slip 7c,

to leave. a clearance space l beyond the end of such' lip, `so that a tl1in`tool canr be inserted beneath the ylip when required, "t'o' Withdraw the toothffro'm the recesses for unthen be pushed aerossthe socket beneat-hthe 'sideslot they socket,and thus hold "the tooth retractedgfroni the recess without any 'attention on the part of the operatonwlnlef the `innery section is unscrewed.. j The ,re-; .moral of the tool Vthen permits the sprin to-'pressthe tooth vinto engagementwit any of the recesses `which may be turned be.

.section d onl spondingly formed with asl 'the recesses, "In Fig. 5, the tooth is :cfa recess by the 'turning of the flange b v of the recesses 4.resistsV the .the parts by the normal pressure of the neath'thesame.. A' single turning 'ofthe advances the same' .within the shellby t espace between two of the screw-'threads-e, and the locking 'recesses are of sufficientnumber-to-permit a very minute adjustment of the casing-seats.

'F ig. 4-shows .the periphery of vthe inner sloping andthe Vopposite side u -with an abrupt shoulder, and the tooth is corre# abrupt shoulder.

The bore of the shell e -is made, adjacent ito vthe perforation j, even with the tops of the screwt-hreads in the shell, 'and Athe exterior of the flange b upon the inner section is formed with a cylindrical seat to lit such portion of the shell, and the4 stud g may thus be supported by the Walls of the perforation j close to the seat which contains showin pushed outl Within the shell e toward theshonlder u',

t-hespring z' yielding-during such movement of lthe tooth; and itis obvious that i'notion in theopposite direct-ion can be prevented bythe contact of the shoulder u.

IuFigstG and concave recesses gr are oping end v and l shown', the edges of which slope *equally to- "Way d the periphery of the flange and the tooth is shoivn with a convex face as' adapted Vto engage such recesses, but ycapable of being pushed automatically outward when the shell and Harige are rotated in eitherdirection. Such a tooth when en aged with any spring i, and operates' automatically to retain the adjusted `'section in any .position to which it may be turned, as any material backward 4 movement'of the adjusted section .would bring-the tooth into the next one ofthe recesses and thus hold' the 'parts in their adjusted position. 1

Spannerebolts t are shown upon the sec# *tiond .in Fig. 2, by which a suitable Wrench or Spanner. may be appliedI to turn one sec' tion of the casing upon the other when adi isplacement of' the sections 'are turned -in either direction.

special adaptation to' -afcylindricel casing;

.12.9 rotated, while th 'convex tooth of F1g. 'lis e ais adiissible.

intended 'to fit inv a cylindrical socket, and

"socket,y and a leafspring secured iin the op-Qy lposite' end of thesoc'ket and provided with a tooth to engage any one'V o f' the; recesses 4upon the periphery of the inner rotatable sectiom Having 11h .invention what is claimed herein is:

A roller bearing having -a sectional casing, the outer sectiond having a cylindricall exterior with tapering 'roll-seat -inside one end and having thel shell e extended' from the other end and threaded internally, the inner section dfitted adjustably to such 'screw'thread, the vhub a having the double conical seatsbwith sets of rolls l@and c hetween the same and the the inner section "'Z having the flange b. provided upon its peripheryv with an annular series ofl recesses, 'the' outer section d having the'circuinferential socket h upon its periphery with the perforation j through the shell e near one end of,said socket, the leaff'spring i riveted in the opposite end of the recess and having la tooth extended through the perforation y" and .adapted to engage any ofthe recesses in the flange b',

. the tooth having a sloping face andthe recesses operating to push the tooth automatically out-Ward when one section is turned -S setforth' the nature of the' seats of the casing.

.fitted -to the concave cesses operating. to pushthe tooth autorInatically outward upon the other, substantially ,as -shown and described.

,2. A @roller bearing having a sectional casing, the outer section d having a cylindrical exterior with tapering roll-.seat inside 'one end and having the shell e extendedl and -threaded internally,

from theother end fitted adjustahly to such the inner section d screvvfthread, the hub a having the doubler conical seats Withsets of Vrolls c and-c between the same and-the seats of the casing,

the inner section l`1V-Ihaving the flange b provided upon its periphery with anannu` lar series of adjacent concave recesses having doubly sloped faces, the outer section d .having the circumferential socket h'upon its periphery with the perforation y" throuh the shell e near one end of said socket, t e

the opposite-end of the recess and having -a tooth 'extended through the perforation g" and adapted to engage any. of the recesses in the iange b', Ithe tooth being provided with a convex end recesses, and' the rewhen one section is turned upon the other' in. either direction, substantiallyas shown-.and described.'

- In' testimony set my hand inthe presence of two 4sub-,

scribing witnesses.

CHARLES S. LOCKWOOD.l Witnesses:` f

BENJAMIN FLASTEB, CHARLES S. DUFFY.'

whereofl I have hereunto 

